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X300SE
This graphics card has to be the worst one I have ever had.
and after some research finding out that it costs a mere £35
I rang dell tech and I was clearly told that this card was more than capable to run all the games out
and I would not need a more powerful card unless i was using CAD!
Where do they get there info from??
Doom 3 - what a joke won't even run on min settings
UT2k4 - Full of graphical glitches
DVD's - Grainy and poor quality playback any fast movement causes pixels to blur
to mention just a few.
It is very anoying to have a high spec machine only yo be let down by a very poor cheap graphic card imitation. At most I can now use this PC to play music (At lest the Audigy 2 card is up to scratch) untill I can afford to replace it, what a let down.
Comments?
- I know what card I should have got.Dells advice on what it can do was way out thats my main problem, miss leading info.and as for earning for a new card, that much is obvious.......................Does anyonce else get grainy poor quality pictures from this card while watching simple DVD'sif so are there Drivers fixes ect or is it simply down to hardware?
tigerwolf7
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Posted November 30th, 2004 02:00
DVD playback works just fine on my x300se, and as far as it goes, it does RUN Doom 3, but it's basically the performance level of a Geforce 3. 2D stuff like DVD playback, etc. should work fine on it though.I'm running the newest drivers from ATi's site, 4.11 I think.Heck my x300 runs like a striped a$$ ape. I am completely impressed w/ it. I run Doom 3 a lot it runs very well. I have no problems with ut2k4 either i play it with yahoo for voice. I am running it overclocked with omoega drivers extremely tweaked for a x300. 427/231 are my settings with ati tool. You are deffinately doing something wrong.
Are you sure we're talking about the SAME x300? :smileyvery-happy:
Just kidding. I had one and thought I was happy with it until I installed a 5900 and there was a huge difference. Never tried the Omegas or overclocking it, though. Be careful--there's no fan on that card and you might be greatly shortening it's lifespan by overheating it.
What? I can barely crack 1000 with '05. And that's running overclocked which I don't normally do. You'r emaking me wonder if I should try that x300 again. :smileywink:
What's the rest of your rig look like?
Dimension 8400
P4 530 3.0GHz, HT, 1MB L2 cache
1GB DDR2 @ 533 MHz
Gigabyte 128MB PCX-5900
160GB SATA
16x DVD-ROM & 16x DVD+RW (dual layer)
SB Live! 24-bit
19" M993s CRTMessage Edited by AZtoSD on 12-01-2004 08:00 AM
Ive got the exact same rig as you. To the T. P4 3.0, 1gb ddr2, 180 g7200 rpm hd, Only integrated audio. I have external card. Did you try the overclock settings I posted? I think the little thing runs great for what it is. What can you expect out of it its cheap I just got it so I could have 925x mobo.
I didn't have the cash for x800xt at the time but new pci-e was the way to go.
Yeah, when I ordered mine back in July, I thought the x300 was the way to go, too. The whole rig buried my old one in performance and I thought simply because it was the "new" PCIe interface it would be great. Frankly, I did like the x300 card for awhile. It ran Call of Duty pretty good. But once I finished that and tried FarCry and couldn't take advantage of the all the eye-candy, I was really bummed. That's why I've always bad-mouthed the x300--I got a game I couldn't run well just 2 weeks after getting the system and I started to pout!
Anyhow, the only retail PCIe card that you could find were the 5900 and 5700. they were going for less than $200 which was okay. Even if I could have found the x800xt, I wasn't ready to spend another $500+. When the price comes down I will, but I think my 5900 is great.
Never tried overclocking the card or running the Omegas (though I did on the 5900 until the 66.93 drivers came out). Also, at the time, the ATI driver was having major problems which I think the got fixed with 4.11. You're right though--overclock the heck out of the card...and if it burns up, it's only $50 to replace!
spainolator
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Posted November 27th, 2004 16:00